Digital Fluency Intensive Session 8

Nearing the end of the course it is interesting to look back and see what I have used and learnt over the last 7 sessions. Over this week we implemented a site I created out of learning from the course. This site had students Creating Stuff with all of our 75 Senior Syndicate students, over 4 2 hour morning sessions. Students had 9 creative tasks to make and then record in some way. From there they completed a slide on a slideshow that was connected and had some correlating work and reflection space. It has been very interesting watching the differing responses to this change in literacy delivery. Many students were very enthusiastic and engagement was high in the creative part of the activity. Completing the written element was more challenging, not in content, but because students wanted to then move on to the next creating activity.
link: https://sites.google.com/waikowhai.school.nz/creating-stuff/home 

In today's session revisiting cybersmart was really valuable and has made us consider how we set the year up in 2020.

Cybersmart 
Never having bad behaviour on a screen - bullying reinforces the bad behaviour, even if the message afterwards is positive and 'don't do this'.  Positive framing gives students what to do, not what not to do. This came up in our film making last year where one was created with a student being bullied. We felt uncomfortable with this as the message at the end was not very strong, but didn't link it to this idea.  An interesting concept around examples of good behaviour being enacted by the targeted child and then watched for 7 days changing severe bad behaviour.

Safety online
It is important to learn the language of positive messaging.
Cybersmart has a positive angle which was developed by teachers for teachers over many years to keep our students safe. Now this terminology is in a Cybersmart Week - first week of Term 4 instead of Net safe, which has negative angle or negative framing of what students are doing online.
Manaiakalani are also looking at Smart Wellbeing or Hauora to either add to or reconfigure categories so this sits inside one of the other categories. This is interesting as our whole school focus this year has been Hauora-Wellbeing and it is popping up more and more.
Overall, I feel we need to build in Cybersmart lessons with more consistency next year. We do these but need a more focused plan to cover the elements we want the kids to be learning.
Smart Learners - Kawa of Care - could be another treaty they sign for our wall and then make videos of what each element looks like in a positive framing. Make it fun, but the positive way to do stuff not the negative way to do things.
Smart Footprint -
Smart Relationships -
For our creative task we used screencastify to investigate some of these categories and elements withing that we could use in our schools. I completed a couple below.
Smart Media



Smart Relationships - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu



Hapara Dashboard
This was an interesting session of revisiting Hapara and the many elements or functions within it. Although I use the basics regularly I need to relook at all the features and possibilities again and give myself reminders to check in to different parts or use them with the students. Things like the
commenting tab - check daily to see if any anonymous comments left as these are in red.
Digital Devices 
Teachers need to use digital devices that they have in classes. Dis-empowering if we don't know the experience the students are having. This was very evident as I have not really used a chromebook myself even though this is the 3rd year my students have had them!! I was slow and confused! I will spend more time on them in the future. I noticed with the ipad use, although I have used an ipad much more than the chromebook in the past, when it came to a new system I was again slow at navigating it. This was good learning for what we put our students through.